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echo: philos
to: JOHN BOONE
from: DAVID MARTORANA
date: 1998-01-02 21:42:00
subject: Northern Exposure

 ++> Response to a John Boone/D. Martorana posting
 ++> on Northern exposure (thinking some North of gray)
 
        Hello John & thanks for writing,
 
 JB> Ah, I would argue -most-, a gray word , if not -all-
 JB> (black-white word) behavior is based upon a -internal- set of
 JB> benefits (benefit-risk analysis).
 
     How might one argue such a brilliant (and true) insight?
 
 DM>> really clear among my more serious thoughts. I believe it
 DM>> a rare opportunity to exchange ideas with interesting
 DM>> people that are not part of my everyday world.  Most of
 
 JB> Do you not benefit in -some- way (however -YOU- define it)
 JB> from the rare opportunity?
 
     .....Yes
 
 DM>  DM>  Yes I remember your introducing "fuzzy logic" grays. My general
 DM>  DM>  dispute with you is that you MOST always project North of the
 DM>  DM>  "grays" you claim to know and love .....
 
 DM>  JB> Ye, the champion of grayness, how can you make such "clear"
 DM>  JB> statements about my "projects [toward] North" when they are
 DM>  JB> so grey?
 
 DM>     .......Do you eat Wheaties too?
 
 JB>  What is the "Wheaties" thing?
 
      In my youth it was a favorite radio ad for a popular breakfast
      cereal "known by all---THEN! .....Sorry
 
 DM>     into more "extreme b/w blustering"   when I feel it my only
 DM>     stick to nudge attention.
 
 JB>  Now, could it not be so with me?
 
     You are sounding so grey, you might be crossing over to
     become an anemic liberal .....yes ?
 
                                     **
     Grey is the color of peace ... |oo| ... Dave
     ....a bit of each extreme         \
     comfortable in a middle!!        _/\_
     Now who wants peace ?????
--- Maximus/2 3.01
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* Origin: America's favorite whine - it's your fault! (1:261/1000)

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